How can you lose fat from your inner thighs?

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Losing Fat From Inner Thighs

I'm going to assume you don't belong to a gym or you'd ask them, so I'm going to give you an exercise to work your inner thighs without weights. Lie on your side with your head propped on your hand with your elbow on the ground. Or with your head rested on your arm with your arm on the ground. Put your legs straight out. The leg on top should be behind the leg on the ground. (Heal to toe) Then lift the leg on the ground a few inches and then lower it to almost touching the ground. The point is to keep control of your leg and not let it touch the ground. You want to go slow so you get more out of it. Do ten and roll over and do ten with the other leg. I'd do three sets at least once a day. A little modified way is to bring the top leg and put it over the other leg, foot flat on the floor. (Make a "cover" over the knee of the leg that's on the ground) On the leg that you are moving, the toes should be pointed towards your body; flat foot, not pointed toes.

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Try Plea squats. They focus on your inner thighs

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Try skipping - do at least 1000 skips everyday. This makes you lean.

Avoid running or jogging as they build your thigh muscles therefore adding bulk.

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Contrary to popular belief, doing specific exercises do not target the fat around a specific area.

There is absolutely no way to target specific areas of fat. Period.

For best results, you must do aerobic activity, weight training and proper diet to lose fat. Your body burns the fat as a whole, not from specific areas.

Check out my blog site for fat loss tips and tricks that I picked up along the way in my loss of 40 pounds.

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You cannot target your inner thighs by themselves. When you lose fat, you lose it evenly throughout your entire body. Some parts of your body hold a higher amount of fat than others, so let's say you start losing fat. You may notice your arms becoming very defined, but your thighs still look 'fat'. If you kept losing fat, eventually your thighs will look defined, though your arms at that point will appear 'ripped' and VERY LEAN. Every BODY is different.

The ONLY way to lose fat on the body is to do aerobic exercise 4-6 times a week, for at least 30-45 minutes, working up to 60 minutes, in your FAT BURNING target heart rate range, NOT in your aerobic range. You take your Maximum Heart Rate (220), subtract your age, and then multiply that result by 50-60% and THAT is the heart rate you want to maintain during your exercise for 30-60 minutes 4-6x per week. ALSO, you MUST eat 5-6 meals a day. They can be small, but keep them consistent, every 3 hours or so. This fools your body into thinking it ISN'T starving, so it can release the fat you currently are holding.

Add some light resistance training 3x a week (weights) using 10-15 reps per set (2-3 sets per body part) and you will make great strides in losing body fat AND reshaping your body so it looks firm. You don't want to be skinny and loose, do you?

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Make sure you warm up and warm down (5-10 minutes each). Make sure you get your protein! Protein shakes, if you like them...

Try Chicken salads

Subway/Quiznos

Steakhouse?

Include a potato item 2x in your weekly diet. Baked potato

Mashed Potato

Diced potatoes cooked over oven/range :D

or any other potato item

Make sure to STRETCH! It's one of the most important parts to keeping fit and tone. It keeps the lactic acid out of your body, and make sure to keep a 48 hour break between workouts.

Weight Make sure the weight you're using:

Doesn't make you push (that's for building)

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Like previously mentioned by others, there is no specific way to target the inner thighs alone. As you start to lose weight you will begin to see results. Same thing goes for abs. You can do crunches and sit ups to your hearts desire but unless you lose overall body-fat/ weight, your results may be unnoticeable. For me personally I started by doing cardio (cross-walker machine in particular) 3 times a week ( my school has a fitness center making this goal easy). I did the cross-walker for about 10-20 minutes starting, then I increased ot to 20+ minutes. Immediately after I did stretches to keep my muscles warm. Usually I would follow up with the abdominal machines to further tone thighs. But as I said before, those machines are worthless unless weight is lost.

19th Jan 2008

Why does everyone assume that it's simply a weight related issue? I'm 5'8" and weigh only 8.5 stone. I sure do not want to lose any weight! However like many others, I would like my thighs to be toned. They're certainly not fat, but they're not a great shape either. Thank you to those who have given examples of general exercises that will tone thighs in general (of course fat won't magically drop off one area!) But to those who simply say you need to lose weight; this is just another in a long list of remarks that merely has the effect of destroying woman's confidence. I just wanted to add this to reassure my sisters that you can be built like a beanpole, but still have this issue. Please stop telling me to lose weight, it isn't always the best solution.

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The best way to lose fat is to eat many small meals throughout the day of the right foods. When you do that, your body goes into "fat burning mode". This is hard for a lot of women because we have learned to reduce our consumption of food when we're trying to lose weight. But the reality is that reducing food intake does exactly the opposite of what we are trying to accomplish. Our bodies go into starvation mode and it naturally will hold on to every fat cell it has.

So I would start by eating five small meals a day of quality, non-processed foods (i.e. meats, vegetables, fruits) to get your metabolism revved up. Then you can work in some cardio, first thing in the morning before you eat, to speed up the fat loss even more.

when I go horseback riding it really works the inner thighs

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The best way to lose fats from inner thighs would be to incorporate these simple steps in your daily activity

a. Never aim for spot reduction of fat and make whole body fat loss as your goal

b. Make cardio like walking, jogging, climbing stairs as your daily habit

c. Diet solves 80% of your physical goal… so avid all junk foods from your diet and increase vegetable consumption

d. Train your legs twice a week with squats, abduction, adduction etc to tone the muscle up to give a firm and good look to your thighs

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